Heeled shoe



F. J. GROSS I Filed July 31, *1926 Patented Get, ll, 1927.

` naires stares FREDERICK J. GROSS, OF AUBURN, MAINE.

HEELED SHOE.

Application led July 31, 1926. Serial No. 126,135.

llhis invention relates to the type of shoe known as a Goodyear welt shoe, and comprising an insole having a stitch-engaging lip, an upper, a welt, and an outsole, the welt and upper being 'united by. inseam stitches to the lip of the insole, and the outsole being united by outseam stitches to the welt.

A shoe of this type is popular and widely used, because of its flexibility, and for other well known reasons.

lt is customary to secure the lift heel of a Goodyear welt shoe by nails driven through the heel and the heel portion of '1 the outsole on which the lift heel is seated.

The nails 'are objectionable because they are liable to work through the upper surface of the heel portion of the insole, said surface constituting what l call the wearers heel seat, and injure the wearers stocking and heel. lt is the common practice to employ a large number of heel-attaching nails, each nail being liable to become a source of objection.

rllhe invention is embodied in a heeled Goodyear welt shoe, in which the wearers heel seat is secured in its operative position conjointly by some of the inseam stitches, engaged with a portion of the welt, and by some of the outseam stitches engaged with a lift heel, the heel portion of the outsole, and a portion of the welt, the object being to securely confine the wearers heel seat in a smooth comfortable position, and to prevent interruption of said heel seat and discomfort to the wearer by the fasteners employed to secure the lift heel, said fasteners being located wholly outside the wearers heel seat and constituting the only means for attaching the lift heel.

' O f the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,-

Figure 1 is a side view of a shoe embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a bottom view of the same.

Figure 3 is a section on line of Figure 2.

Figure el is a view similar to a portion of Figure 3, showing the heel provided with a supplemental lift.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

rlhe insole 12 of shoe characterized as hereinafter described, is provided with a continuous outwardly turned lip 13. rllhe lower marginal edge of the upper 1st is seated on the lip. A continuous welt l5 is seated on and projects outwardly fromthe upper, including the heel or counter portion thereof, and is unitedto the upper and tothe ip 13, by 'a continuous series of inseam stitches 16 formed by a Goodyear welt-sewing machine, while the upper, the insole, and the welt are on a last. The outsole includes a fore portion 17, and av heel portion 1?, whose margin is flush with the outer margin ofthe Welt. The outsoler is seatedfon the welt, the lower edge portion of the upper, the lip 13, and any suitable filler 18, covering the lower surface of the insole within the lip. The filler is preferably a layer of leather or leather-board corresponding in thickness to the width of the lip 13. A lift heel 19, which may be composed of any suitable number of lifts, is seated on the heel portion 17n of the outsole.

The welt is united to the outsole and heel by a continuous series of outseam stitches 20 formed by an outsole stitcher, and passing through the marginal portion of the outsole and through the marginal portion of the heel 19, excepting the breast thereof, and

through the marginal portion of the welt.V

Said stitches are made by an outsole stitcher organized to form outseam stitches of different lengths, sothat relatively short stitches 20 are formed in the fore part of the outsole, and longer stitches 2()a in the heel portion of the outsole and in the heel 19.

The described shoe is characterized by the fact that a portion of the welt and some of the inseam stitches attaching the welt to the insole, are extended around the heel portion of the upper, while some of the outseam stitches attaching the outsole to the welt, are extended around the heel portions of the outsole and welt and engaged with the lift heel. rIhe result is that the wearers heel seat, formed by the heel portion of the insole, is securely confined in a smooth, comfortableposition by the conjoint action of some of the inseam stitches and heel liftattaching outseam stitches, the latter being located entirely outside the wearers heel seat and constituting the only fasteners of the lift heel, so that there can be no penetration of the wearers heel seat by lift heel fasteners.

The heel 19 may be provided, as shown by Figure 4, with a supplemental heel lift 19a, which may be of rubber or any other suitable material. This lift covers the outer ends of the longer outs-seam stitches 20, and is Cil and to the heel portion of the outsole by supplemental fasteners 22,.. which may be Wooden pegs and are located wholly outside the heel or counter portion of the upper,V

and in close proximity to the stitches 20a, so that they are outside the,` Wearers heel seatV under the Wearers heel. A shank piece 23, preferably of Wood, may berinterposed between the filler 18V and the shank portion of the outsole.

It Will be seen that the described lheeled shoe is of entirely non-metallic construction.

I claim:

A Goodyear Welt shoe including van insole, an upper, a yWelt extending completely around the shoe, inseam stitches uniting the insole and lupper to the Welt, an outsole, outseam stitches uniting the Welt to the outsole,

and a lift-heel seated onA the heel portion of the,V outsole, a port-ion of the Welt and some of the inseam stitches attaching the Welt and upper to= the insole being extended around the heel portion of the upper, While some of theoutseam stitches attaching the outsole toy the Welt are extended around the heel portions of the outsole and Welt and engaged With the lift-heel, the arrangement being` such. thatthe heel seatzof the shoe is marginally confined by the conjoint action of some of the inseam stitches, the ou-tseam stitches connecting; the Welt and lift-heel being located entirely outside the heel seat ofthe shoe and the litt-heel being secured entirely by said outseam stitches, so' that there is no penetration of the heel seat of the shoe by litt-heel fasteners. In testimony whereofv I signature.

' FREDERICK. J. GROSS.

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